Recently, the 2022 Gartner "SD-WAN Key Capabilities Report" was released! Fortinet became the only network security solutions provider in the industry to receive three of the five use cases in Gartner's SD-WAN Critical Capabilities Report for two consecutive years, including security-sensitive WAN, small branch WAN, and telecommuting scenarios.

So far, Fortinet has been named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN™ for three consecutive years, topped the Best Execution List for two consecutive years, and has been recognized by market vision and forward-looking authorities.

Such accolades and excellence stem from Fortinet's continued investment, strategic positioning and constant commitment to secure SD-WAN solutions, as well as its ongoing commitment to meeting changing user needs across industry verticals and different use case environments.

Named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN (Graphic)

Fortinet's innovation has successfully integrated SD-WAN and NGFW seamlessly, making it easy for enterprises to simplify their transformation journey. In addition, Fortinet is also the first vendor in the industry to successfully integrate a Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) strategy into an SD-WAN architecture, enabling hybrid office users to efficiently and securely access corporate networks. Fortinet also relies on a secure SD-WAN solution centrally managed by a unified management platform and equipped with the world's original ASIC acceleration chip, helping organizations to effectively avoid threats and intrusions, while enjoying a large-scale and high-performance network connection experience.

Fortinet continues to deliver on-premises and cloud-delivered-native security, the ease of cloud connectivity, deployment flexibility, and scalability to fully meet changing user needs. It is precisely because Fortinet continues to increase investment in advanced solutions, continues to carry out SASE-based secure SD-WAN support, intelligent operations and maintenance (AIOps) for IT operations, and digital experience monitoring (DEM) technology innovation for SaaS monitoring The research and development further promoted Fortinet's secure SD-WAN solution to stand out in the market competition, and helped Fortinet to top the best execution list for two consecutive years and won the authoritative recognition of vision integrity.

Fortinet Secure SD-WAN Future-proofs Your Network Investment

As the network environment becomes increasingly complex, the network attack surface also proliferates, and the complexity is exacerbated by an inefficient network operations environment. Modern enterprises need to deploy SD-WAN solutions that support evolving capabilities to dynamically adapt to today's rapidly evolving business environment, simplifying traditional network architectures, avoiding threat exposure and improving operational efficiency.

Enables seamless convergence of SD-WAN and AI-driven security

Fortinet relies on a single operating system, FortiOS as the core support, and is equipped with powerful security components such as deep SSL packet inspection, DNS/URL/video filtering, AV, inline sandbox, IPS and IoT/OT security services to provide users with excellent security. and optimized user experience. Relying on the industry's original custom processor SD-WAN ASIC acceleration chip designed to accelerate key SD-WAN functions, it ensures high performance while building a strong network defense system for organizations. This strength has continued to propel Fortinet to the top of the list for "Security-Sensitive WAN" use cases over the past four years.

Vendor Product Scores in Security-Sensitive WAN Use Cases (Graph)

·Security SD-Branch solution effectively simplifies remote office networking architecture

Companies in retail, financial services, law firms, and other market segments are looking for effective ways to build software-defined branches with the intent of simplifying their network infrastructure. The Fortinet Secure SD-Branch solution extends its innovative and advantageous security capabilities to all branch networks, providing users with the most secure and easy-to-manage remote branch network. Seamlessly integrate network and security functions, support unified management, help organizations achieve rapid deployment, and simplify branch network architecture. It is undeniable that it is this strong advantage that has helped Fortinet to be ranked No. 1 in the "Small Branch WAN" use case for the third year in a row.

Vendor Product Scoring in Small Branch WAN Use Case (Graph)

· Comprehensive protection for mixed office users

Fortinet SD-WAN solution pre-built unified ZTNA policy enforcement function (no additional cost) helps organizations provide a consistent network access experience and security posture for mobile office users who frequently switch inside and outside the office, ensuring consistent implementation at all network edges inside and outside the network security policies to effectively protect the entire digital attack surface and avoid the horizontal spread of threats. It's these strong strengths that continue to propel Fortinet to the top of the "remote worker" use case.

Vendor Product Scores in Remote Work From Home Use Cases (Graphic)

Accelerate the digital-first strategic transformation journey to achieve a seamless transition to the SASE model

The number and sophistication of cyberattacks is increasing, and the digital attack surface is rapidly expanding. Enterprises want to successfully transform their WAN without sacrificing security. As a result, enterprises need to achieve full integration of on-premises SD-WAN and security with cloud-based security. Fortinet's secure SD-WAN solution provides users with seamless and secure connectivity from on-premises to hybrid and multi-cloud environments. With a single operating system as the core support, it helps organizations integrate network and security, enjoy efficient and secure access experience anytime, anywhere, simplify operation management, achieve centralized management, and ensure consistent security functions and policy execution across the entire network. Fortinet Secure SD-WAN solutions are uniquely positioned to protect users and business-critical applications anywhere, empower organizations to confidently embrace cloud-first strategies, and accelerate their digital-first strategic transformation journeys.

· Seamless handover to LTE/5G wireless WAN

With LTE/4G/5G connectivity technologies applied to the primary WAN links of enterprise branch offices, reliable, secure connectivity is critical. To this end, Fortinet's integrated security services and SD-WAN solutions are tightly integrated into a unified management platform, allowing users to easily create faster, easier to manage and maintain wireless WANs and surf 5G networks.

Simplify IT operations management and improve user experience

The growing complexity of managing network operations requires organizations to identify and respond to connectivity and security issues faster than ever before. Therefore, it is critical to quickly gain insight and detect where the problem lies, and pinpoint the source of the problem. More importantly, the ability to successfully predict and eliminate threats before potential problems cause actual damage. Combining advanced AIOps and SaaS monitoring with DEM capabilities can improve the overall user and IT experience. Fortinet perfectly combines Intelligent Operation and Maintenance (AIOps) and Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) technology for SaaS monitoring to easily simplify IT operations management and improve user experience.

Wide range of user recognition perfectly confirms Fortinet's unchanging commitment to users

This time, in addition to being a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SD-WAN for the third consecutive year, Fortinet was also named a Gartner® Peer Insights™ "Clients' Choice" for WAN Edge Infrastructure for the third consecutive year in March 2022. The Gartner® Peer Insights "Customers' Choice" is based on the total number of reviews and overall user ratings, based on real end users and professionals' superior recognition of vendors in this market.

With a massive SD-WAN user base of over 19,000, Fortinet is the most trusted cybersecurity advisor across industries and verticals. Adhering to the concept of innovation, Fortinet creates unique and secure SD-WAN solutions for users, helps global customers provide excellent access experience for their users, accelerates organizational security deployment to simplify network architecture, and makes it neutral in today's digital market competition wave in invincibility.